Welcome Back, Danielle!

I have to say I USE to make great chocolate chip cookies. Whenever I made them for friends or neighbors, people would ask me for the recipe. But over the past two years....my cookies have stunk. Okay, not literally, but they were just awful. They were chunky, dry and just didn't have that gooey, melt in your mouth taste. I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong...and really I didn't care. I was just checking "make cookies" off of my motherly to do list. One thing for sure, my head has been in the new baby funk for quite sometime. You mothers know what I am talking about...it's those years when you are doing everything each day in, "survival mode". You get out of bed and just put one foot in front of the other and the next thing you know your day is over and it's time for bed. Something changed this week...I snapped out of the funk!!!!

I was actually thinking clearly. MMMM this is nice. I haven't felt like this since before the kids were born! I feel freedom....yes, yes, THAT IS WHAT IT IS....Ah, Glory, Glory...FREEDOM. So, what has changed and why do I feel this freedom? Tiffany is older and more independent now. She can take care of a lot of her own needs, and the older girls are quite helpful too.

So, today as I made cookies, I decided I would actually (GASP) look at the recipe card. I haven't done that in who knows how long. (HAHA!) Well, after close examination, I realized that I have been putting way too much flour and baking soda in my cookies!! No wonder they were awful. So may I present to you a photo of my cookies!!!


TA-da! It was good I took this when I did...there are not many left. The girls even started hiding some for their lunches tomorrow!

Welcome back to me!